| Original name |
Fundamentalisti |
| Kirjoittajat |
Juha Jokela |
| Original language |
Finnish |
| Premiere year |
2006 |
| Theater |
Teatteri Jurkka |
| Keywords |
Drama |
Performances abroad
Theater Aachen, Germany 2010;
Staged reading, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6.5.2006
Synopsis
Persons: 1 female and 1 male
Markus 49 years
Heidi 38 years
The story is told in these times (year 2006). The events are located to have happened between two and twenty years from present day.
Markus wants to tell in public his own version of the events that led to his parting of the priest’s ministry.
The process got started when Heidi, the supervisor of a confirmation class that took place twenty years ago, and who now has come to faith, arrived to convert the liberal minded Markus. The retrograde memory of closeness had left a painful feeling of guild in both of them. The play pictures how Heidi’s and Markus’ debates about the historicality of the bible and the confessionality of faith rise and come to a crisis. Eventually, the sexual closeness between them becomes unavoidable. Yet Markus draws back from the relationship as he understands that his love is only based on imaginations. Heidi can not handle to get abandoned and gets caught in a psychosis.
During the play Markus’ lonely contemplations with the audience take turn with flashbacks of his and Heidi’s shared meetings. The play does not give any final answer nor makes any judgement, but leaves – without forgetting a good-hearted irony and humour – the spectator to ponder the difficult moral and ethical questions by himself.
Translations
| Language |
English |
| Translation name |
The Fundamentalist |
| Translators |
Eva Buchwald |
| Copies available |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Language |
Swedish |
| Translation name |
Fundamentalisten |
| Translators |
Jan Nåls |
| Copies available |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Language |
Russian |
| Translation name |
ФУНДАМЕНТАЛИСТЫ |
| Translators |
Boris Sergejev |
| Copies available |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Language |
German |
| Translation name |
Der Fundamentalist |
| Translators |
Juha Päätalo |
| Copies available |
Hartmann & Stauffer GmbH, www.hsverlag.com |
| Drama agency |
Hartmann & Stauffer GmbH, www.hsverlag.com |
| Language |
Danish |
| Translation name |
Fundamentalisten |
| Translators |
Niklas Nyman Holdgaard |
| Copies available |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner, www.dramacorner.fi, office(at)dramacorner.fi |
| Language |
Spanish |
| Translation name |
Fundamentalista |
| Translators |
Luisa Gutiérrez Ruiz |
| Julkaisija |
Theatre Info Finland (TINFO) |
| Copies available |
Nordic Drama Corner ltd |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner ltd |
| Language |
Catalan |
| Translation name |
Fonamentalista |
| Translators |
Tania Sierra Garcia |
| Copies available |
Theatre Info Finland TINFO |
| Drama agency |
Nordic Drama Corner |